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Schnee: Hero or Huntress
is a RWBY and My Hero Academia crossover written by Krieg Schnee.
After being impaled by Cinder during the Battle of Haven, Weiss finds herself in a new world, one filled with heroes and villains wielding strange Quirk powers. Despite the emotional turmoil of her sudden arrival, she decides to honor her missing friends by signing up at a school for the local heroes. Hopefully, her experience with Beacon will come in handy... but it's not like there's any secret cabal of villains trying to destroy society, right? It would be weird for it to happen twice...
The story is hosted on Spacebattles, and can also be found on FanFiction.net, AO3, Sufficient Velocity, and Wattpad.
This fanfic provides examples of:
- Absence of Evidence: Part of why Tsukauchi believes Weiss's story about her origins is that there's no record of anyone matching her description and age that he can find.
- Actor Allusion: Weiss notes that Midnight sounds familiar for some reason. In the English dub, Midnight is voiced by Elizabeth Maxwell, who also voices Weiss' older sister Winter in RWBY.
- Apologises a Lot: Weiss, at least to Yu, since she feels both indebted to the woman and guilty for (in her mind) inconveniencing her.
- An Arm and a Leg: One of the villains attacking the USJ ends up with his right hand cut off, courtesy of Weiss.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Weiss is fairly polite and courteous most of the time. When the League of Villains attacks the USJ, she shows no hesitation in using potentially lethal force on the ones attacking her, with it being made clear later that she actually killed some of them.
- Bluff the Imposter: Nezu subtly does this with the tea that he gives Weiss during their meeting after the USJ incident, poking at the holes in her official backstory.
- Broken Ace: Weiss is this, due to getting top scores in both the UA entrance exam and the Quirk assessment test. Justified, since she's secretly older than the rest of her UA classmates and has more fighting experience. However, this is still Weiss Schnee we're talking about, complete with all the parental issues of late Volume Five RWBY, and the addition of almost bleeding out from Cinder's thrown javelin.
- Culture Clash: Somewhat. Weiss is stuck in a world where certain things are not what she is used to, such as the use of honorifics and the more 'flashy' way heroes portray themselves. Despite this, she passes herself off as a foreigner to explain her eccentricities and adapts relatively quickly.
- Death or Glory Attack: More defeat than death, but Kaminari attempts to defeat Weiss in one hit during the tournament by putting all his power into one attack. Unfortunately, Weiss predicted this, and stuck Dolt in the ground between them right before the attack, which acts as a lightning rod and causes him to miss. Due to the issues he has if he uses too much power, he is declared unable to fight.
- Dramatic Irony:
- Aizawa threatens to expel Weiss in an attempt to encourage her to use her 'quirk' more, claiming that if she doesn't learn she'll wind up bleeding out in an alleyway somewhere. Not only is he trying to impress the danger of heroing on somebody who has already lived through dangerous situations, Weiss's arrival that had her bleeding out in an alleyway before she was rescued by Yu was partially the result of her using her abilities so much that she ran out of Aura.
- Several members of class 1A comment that while Weiss can be pretty scary, she would never actually kill anyone. At this point, Weiss killed and maimed several villains, and this is after all her fighting on Remnant.
- Entertainingly Wrong: Between Weiss' white hair, obviously strong "Quirk" and several songs about escaping a controlling parent, Todoroki thinks that she might be related to his mother.
- Epic Fail: Weiss attempts to do dishes. Key-word being "attempts".
- Eyepatch After Time Skip: Roman is wearing an eye patch in his first appearance in the story. It is eventually revealed that he lost his eye to Toga when they first met.
- Fingore: During the USJ incident, Weiss manages to cut off one of Shigaraki's fingers.
- Force and Finesse: Discussed. While berating her for holding back during exams, Aizawa advises Weiss to work on increasing her strength. Weiss counters that focusing on control allows people to accomplish thing more cleanly and minimizes collateral damage.
- Fountain of Youth: When she arrives in the My Hero Academia world, Weiss finds herself to be 15-years-old. While she's initially put out by this, the revelation that she's in another world entirely quickly overtakes her response.
- History Repeats:
- Chapter 60 shows that, just like on Remnant, Roman has found himself working with a younger girl who is surprisingly dangerous and has abilities focused on disguising herself and confusing others. On Remnant it was Neo, on Earth it's Toga.
- Once again, a member of team RWBY is pushing her friends away while obsessing over hunting a sword-wielding villain who It's Personal with. On Remnant, it was Blake and Adam, who used to be a couple until Blake fled the White Fang, on Earth it's Weiss and Stain, who targeted Yu to hurt Weiss.
- I Am Not Left-Handed:
- Weiss severely holds back her capabilities with her "Quirk" until the USJ attack.
- She literally uses Dolt in her right hand when she's left-handed during the beginning of her Sports Festival duel against Bakugo.
- I'm a Doctor, Not a Placeholder: When Weiss severs a villains hand during the USJ incident, the other villains begin claiming that as an aspiring-hero she shouldn't be doing that, she corrects them saying she's not a hero, she's a huntress.
- I Owe You My Life: Weiss feels indebted to Yu for saving her and taking her in when she had nowhere to go.
- Inexplicably Awesome: In-universe, Weiss is seen as this. A foreigner that, out of nowhere, becomes a pop song idol, scores the highest on the academy entrance exam by a landslide, wields a sword with worrying expertise, and manages to trounce her classmates in a combat exercise while almost certainly still holding back. It's deconstructed a bit with the teachers; Nezu has singled her out as 'interesting,' Aizawa has tried his usual Excel or be Expelled tactic on her, and All Might suspects she might be a plant by All For One.
- Jack of All Stats: Weiss is stronger than any student that doesn't have a specific strength Quirk, tougher than any student that doesn't have a specific toughness quirk, and that's before we bring in the versatility of Dust or her Semblance...
- Loony Fan:
- Mineta is a huge fan of Weiss, doing things like calling her a "Goddess".
- Monoma is also a big fan of her, his main grudge against 1-A in this story apparently being that they ended up with her rather than 1-B.
- Mugging the Monster: After he attacks Yu, Weiss lures Stain out and gets him to attack her so she can pay him back. The battle is completely one-sided in Weiss's favor.
- Named Weapons: Weiss's dull sword that Nezu has her make for class purposes after the USJ incident is named "Dolt".
- Noodle Incident: Weiss once had to attend detention with Goodwitch due to Yang. We don't get any details, but Weiss notes that anything Aizawa could come up with would pale in comparison.
- Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: Even with her Aura and Semblance, powerful and versatile as the latter is, Weiss would normally still be a student Huntress on Remnant if Beacon was still active, and there are some students her age that could match or even beat her, to say nothing of fully-trained Huntsmen. On Earth though, where no one else has Aura, with all the benefits it brings, with a Semblance that's far more versatile than the average Quirk, what Dust she has access to, and her skill with the sword, Weiss is easily one of the strongest students in 1-A, even managing to beat Bakugo to win the Sports Festival and actually give the USJ Nomu a hard time. When she goes after Stain for attacking Yu, she completely dominates the fight, and only Kyoka's arrival keeps her from killing him.
- Not Quite Dead:
- Roman Torchwick somehow survived his canonical death and ended up on Earth with the League of Villains.
- Pyrrha Nikos also appeared to survived somehow in a non-canon omake.
- Outside-Context Problem: Weiss's Semblance and Dust this for the League of Villains at the USJ, as it is the only thing capable of doing more than momentarily inconvenience the Nomu before All Might arrives.
- Parental Substitute:
- Mt. Lady falls into the role of guardian for Weiss.
- Toga calls Roman "Dad", to his annoyance.
- Power Fist: Weiss's hero costume includes one, explicitly based on Yang's Ember Celica, that she can use if she's somehow stripped of her sword.
- Set Swords to "Stun": After the USJ incident, where Weiss severely injures and even kills several villains in self-defense, Nezu forces her to make a new blade with a blunted blade for school exercises.
- Shell-Shocked Veteran: Weiss has shades of this, including nightmares and flashbacks. Most of the time she hallucinates people having different eye colours whenever they remind her of one of her friends, with the hallucinated colour matching the friend they remind her of.
- Shout-Out:
- Sneeze Cut: When Weiss is talking about how bad the coffee in the café she went to was, saying that it was like they did it on purpose and she's never going back there, Roman sneezes.
- Spared By Adaptation: Somehow Roman survives his canonical death and ends up on Earth like Weiss did.
- Super-Empowering: After Stain attacks Yu, Weiss awakens her Aura while she's in the hospital.
- Superpowerful Genetics: The Schnee Semblance, as in canon, is heritable. This makes Weiss concerned that, if she ever has children in this new world, they'll have her Semblance and a Quirk (themselves examples of this).
- Therapy Is for the Weak: Despite clearly needing it desperately, Weiss refuses to get therapy until Nezu pretty much blackmails her into it.
- This Is Gonna Suck: Weiss's reaction to being paired up with Mineta for combat exercise can be summed up with this sentence.
- Thou Shall Not Kill: Heroes are supposed to only use lethal force if there's no other option. Weiss is a bit more flexible on this, to say the least.
- Time Skip: Between chapter 30 and 31, several months passed and Weiss became a famous singer.
- Trapped in Another World: The main premise of the story is that Weiss finds herself transported to the My Hero Academia world.
- Unishment: Weiss's "punishment" for using potentially lethal force on the USJ villains? Mandatory therapy, which she had previously rejected but clearly needs. And not being able to use her sword in combat exercises, having to use a dull-bladed replacement instead, but compared to losing it entirely...
- Villain Takes an Interest: After Weiss wins the Sports Festival, Stain is implied to have set his sights on her as a target. He later attacks Yu to draw Weiss out.
- We Have Become Complacent: After the internships arc, Weiss sees Izuku utilizing elements of both her and Bakugo's movement techniques and realizes that due to her desire to get revenge on Stain, she's the only one in 1-A who hasn't improved over their internships.
- Wham Episode: Chapter 60 reveals Roman Torchwick is alive on Earth, working with Toga.
- Wrong Context Magic: Quirks are genetic superpowers that can be made stronger through physical training, but generally function within a very limited framework. Weiss's Semblance is something of a soul-based power, growing more versatile the more she focuses on her mental growth. Throw in that Aura provides her a general physical boost on top of that, the (small) amount of Dust she has giving her some elemental abilities, and the fact that she's the only one of her classmates carrying a sword instead of relying primarily on her abilities (with maybe some support gear to make it more effective) to fight, and she readily defies the standard view of how heroes work. All Might even wonders if she's a plant by All For One due to how powerful and versatile her "Quirk" is.
- You Remind Me of X: Weiss doesn't like to interact with Izuku much precisely because he reminds her a lot of Ruby, and said reminder hurts her.
